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Comicon photos. Mostly around the booth. I swear, we didn’t get out much. See David Horvath, Nanospores, Jeff Soto, Mark Murphy, our booth, Tom Devlin, Guy Delisle, Dan Nadel, Scrappers and Bwana, and many others. Here’s some more photos, including the GR sponsored bonfire pics via Anne Ishii
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Comicon photos. Mostly around the booth. I swear, we didn't get out much. See David Horvath, Nanospores, Jeff Soto, Mark Murphy, our booth, Tom Devlin, Guy Delisle, Dan Nadel, Scrappers and Bwana, and many others.
Here's some more photos, including the GR sponsored bonfire pics via Anne Ishii
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Here's some more photos, including the GR sponsored bonfire pics via Anne Ishii
Went to The Cure show here in Hong Kong last night and what an impressive show it was! I went in thinking it was going to be a fat and old Robert Smith playing a couple classics then mostly a bunch of newer stuff that no one really knew for 45 minutes. To my surprise, however, their set lasted almost three hours and was chocked full of the old school goodies! And although he is old and fat now, his voice sounds as good and strong as ever.I hobbled in on my crutches to the standing room floor area of the Asian Expo Arena excited to see the band I never got to see in high-school and was surprised to see such a huge turnout. I didn’t think too many locals were into The Cure. It was definitely a much more mature affair. Not many people under 25 and there were a lot of balding white guys dancing around reminiscing their college days. About half an hour into the show a security guard offered me a chair near the sound booth. I’m glad I took him up on the offer because my one good leg was already getting sore however, I did have to jump up to get a little groove on when songs like “Friday I’m in Love”, “Lovesong” and “Just Like Heaven” came on. The crowd was also one on the best I have ever seen in HK. Usually local crowds are quite dead but last night the whole arena was dancing and singing along. Their double encore was finished off with “Boys Don’t Cry”, a perfect end to a great show. Robert Smith got so hot at one point he turned into a giant fireball right there on stage!
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The weekend is over as fast as it started. From having to lug boxes up stairs, through people, down aisles to our table, then to having to repack them, thankfully in smaller amounts.There’s less to see in sf than ever. I don’t care to see most of the booths anymore, but there are a great small amount of tables that make it all worth it. I’m less into exploring the goodness of most of the spaces like I used to. Now I sort of know what to see. Indie comics, a few toy folks, and maybe a single wildcard of something different. This year, I don’t know what that wildcard was maybe kami robots, as seen in GR? Gargamel who seem to be the coolest kids around? They’re 5 deep from Japan, listen to thrash, and make the best indie vinyl toys ever. Grasshut? Bwana scrappers lemerde martin! Sparkplug, Buenaventura, or picturebox? There are a bunch of others, and it’ll be nice to see them all again hopefully sooner than a year from now.
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The weekend is over as fast as it started. From having to lug boxes up stairs, through people, down aisles to our table, then to having to repack them, thankfully in smaller amounts.There's less to see in sf than ever. I don't care to see most of the booths anymore, but there are a great small amount of tables that make it all worth it. I'm less into exploring the goodness of most of the spaces...
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